John Polacek

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Funny on Github

Originally published on 4/12/2015

Github projects aren’t just frameworks, libs and plugins. There is some funny in there too. Here are some github projects that will make you laugh.

Know of any good ones that I missed? Tweet me at @johnpolacek

The Useless Web Website

The Useless Web

Take me to another useless website please. The useless web is a single button, which opens new links to an array of strange and odd websites. View it at theuselessweb.com

Github Project: github.com/tholman/the-useless-web

By Tim Holman (@twholman)

fartscroll

fartscroll.js

Everyone farts. And now your web pages can too. View it at theonion.github.io/fartscroll.js

Github Project: github.com/theonion/fartscroll.js

By The Onion (@TheOnion)

what the commit

What The Commit

An amusing random commit message generator. View it at whatthecommit.com

Github Project: github.com/ngerakines/commitment

By Nick Gerakines (@ngerakines)

bootstra

BOOTSTRA.386

A Bootstrap to make webpages look like they are from the 1980s. View it at kristopolous.github.io/BOOTSTRA.386

Github Project: github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386

By Chris McKenzie (kristopolous)

passwords for the manly man

Passwords for the Manly Man

Generating passwords so strong and secure they strike fear into the heart of darkness. View it at dfcb.github.io/manly-man-passwords

Github Project: github.com/dfcb/manly-man-passwords

By John Polacek (@johnpolacek)

gifs

jglovier/gifs

Joel Glovier’s GIF Collection. View it at gifs.joelglovier.com

Github Project: github.com/jglovier/gifs

By Joel Glovier (@jglovier)

arnoldc

ArnoldC

A programming language based on the one liners of Arnold Schwarzenegger. View it at lhartikk.github.io/ArnoldC

Github Project: https://github.com/lhartikk/ArnoldC

By Lauri Hartikka (@lhartikk)

five

Five

A library to overcomplicate 5. View it at jackdcrawford.github.io/five

Github Project: github.com/jackdcrawford/five

By Jack Crawford (jackdcrawford)

programmer collective nouns

Programmer Collective Nouns

An Enumerable of Rubyists, An Indentation of Pythonistas, A fold of Haskellers, etc View more at https://gist.github.com/mariusGundersen/6925246

Github Gist by Marius Gundersen (@gundersenmarius)

html9

HTML9 Responsive Boilerstrap JS

H9RBS.js (v0.0001) is a flexible, dependency-free, lightweight, device-agnostic, modular, baked-in, component framework MVC library shoelacestrap to help you kickstart your responsive CSS-based app architecture backbone kitchensink tweetybirds. View it at html9responsiveboilerstrapjs.com

Github Project: github.com/impressivewebs/HTML9-Responsive-Boilerstrap-js

By Louis Lazaris (@ImpressiveWebs)

semicolon programming language

Semicolon

A programming language of semicolons. View it at pksunkara.com/semicolon

Github Project: github.com/pksunkara/semicolon

By Pavan Kumar Sunkara (@pksunkara)

illacceptanything

illacceptanything

The project where literally* anything goes. View it at illacceptanything.github.io

Github Project: github.com/illacceptanything/illacceptanything

By Kristopher Wilson (@mrkrstphr)